Is anyone using Adobe Business Catalyst? How are you ranking?

I love the concept of having everything centralized like in Adobe Business Catalyst---Website, e-mail marketing, e-commerce, blog, CRM. But how does this system perform as far as SEO is concerned? I see there is no canonical URL option, which I'm sure would be needed for products/catalog pages. If that's not done right, I'm sure other things are missing. If no takers, how about an alternative? Livesite, infusionsoft, Hubspot? Hope to move from a combination of Magento and about 5 other platforms to a single spot.

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We've been using BC for about 3 years. I was amazed by how well and how quickly we began to rank. However, since about April (ahem) our rankings have fallen off a cliff and we're still struggling to get even close to where we were before. The system creates a ton of duplicate content which can be managed with rel canonical tags and 301s, but it's a lot of work to keep up with it. But even more than that, since Adobe purchased the company the CMS has really gone south. Features like blogs and forums are very bare-bones and there's little room for back-end customization. We're switching to Wordpress next month. I don't recommend it at all.

Thanks for your input Placeboo. I'm actually contemplating a complete Wordpress e-commerce site, as it's very customizable easy to use. What e-commece solution did you go with for WP? Have you looked at other platforms that boast great conversion, etc. Hubspot, Infusionsoft, Salesforce.com?

We've been using BC for five years or more and at first had a hard time getting sites to rank. We've improved our SEO practices (using Moz), conducted in-depth keyword reserch (on Moz), built SEO-friendly sites and are killing it in organic search. BC is SEO friendly but you need to understand the platform and where to bury keywords.

However nether myself nor another commentator can figure out how to make it work:

I added the meta data to my template but it seems the tags are not correct. For example, the tag {tag_blogpostmetatitle} does not automatically include the SEO title that I've called out in my individual blog post. So, it appears the browser is ignoring the tag and just including it as is. When I view the source for my live blog article, this is what I get for the lines that I've added the code in the <head> tag:

Hi! This is an older thread, and it might be beneficial for you to start your own thread about this. Right now, SEOmoz Q&A doesn't bump up new responses on a question to the top of a list, so few people are going to see this.